This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic" : Cinchona / by Moorman, J.A. ; The Function of the Digestive Fluids / by Carpenter, George H. ; Diphtheria with a Clinical Case of Rheumatism / by Eisenhart, William H. ; Dysentery / by Summers, James P. ; Pulmonary Tuberculosis / by Dausch, Peter ; Chloroform / by Kerr, Charles S. ; Acute Bronchitis / by Giddings, William V. ; Opium / by Price, Joshua T. ; Epilepsy / by Stokes, James H. ; Food / by Greenway, Gilbert C. ; Differential Diagnosis of Typhus and Typhoid Fevers / by Bordley, James Jr. ; Acute Lobar Pneumonitis / by Thomson, Pembroke A. ; Use of Alcohol in Phthisis / by Williams, T. Clayton